People's Petition to Cap Carbon Dioxide Pollution at 350 Parts Per Million
Prominent figures across the country are signing on to this letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in support of the Center's legal petition, filed with 350.org, to establish national pollution limits for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
Sign the letter yourself now.
Dear Administrator Jackson:
I support the Clean Air Act petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and 350.org to the Environmental Protection Agency to cap atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at 350 parts per million — the level scientists have determined is necessary to sustain life as we know it.
The Clean Air Act works. The Clean Air Act has protected the air we breathe for 40 years, reaping economic benefits 42 times its cost. Today, the Clean Air Act is our strongest tool to immediately curb greenhouse gas pollution and global warming.
Now more than ever we need you to fully implement the Clean Air Act to protect the air we breathe and preserve a safe climate. I urge you to grant the petition and fully utilize all of the Clean Air Act’s successful pollution reduction programs to achieve the deep and rapid greenhouse pollution cuts needed to protect our future.
Respectfully,
Dr. James Hansen, Climate Scientist
Bill McKibben, Founder 350.org, Author
Barbara Kingsolver, Author
Ed Begley, Jr., Actor/Activist
Dr. Helen Caldicott
Bonnie Raitt, Musician / Activist
Alec Loorz, Founder, Kids vs. Global Warming
Victoria Loorz, Co-founder, Kids vs. Global Warming
Dr. Michael Dorsey, Director, Sierra Club National Board
Dinah Bear, Attorney-at-Law
Zyg Plater, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, Heinz Center
Oliver Houck, Author and Professor of Law, Tulane University
Harvey Wasserman, author of SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030
Brock Evans, President, Endangered Species Coalition
Curtis Moore, Author and former Republican Counsel, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate
Jonathan Baker, Co-founder, Sol Sage
Fred Tomaselli, Artist
Joshua Beckman, Poet
Elise Blackwell, Author
Eric Zencey, Visiting Associate Professor of Historical and Political Studies, Empire State College
Rikki Ducornet, Author
Ron Currie, Jr., Author
Donna Tartt, Author
Kathryn Davis, Author
Ben Marcus, Author
Lydia Millet, Author
Kate Bernheimer, Author
Adam Braver, Author
Rick Moody, Author
Jenny Offill, Author
Anna Lappe, Author, Small Planet Institute
Dr. John Terborgh, Research Professor Emeritus and Director, Center for Tropical Conservation, Duke
Dr. Niles Eldredge, Curator in the Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History
Dr. Melissa Savage, Professor Emeritus, University of California Los Angeles
Alex Irvine, Author
Darin Strauss, Author
Don Waters, Author
Jennifer Egan, Author
Ben Edlund, Writer
Aurelie Sheehan, Author
Victor Lodato, Author
Alison Deming, Author
Daniel Handler, Author
Alan Cheuse, Author
Lynn Tillman, Author
Jonathan Lethem, Author
Darcey Steinke, Author
Luanne Rice, Author
Jay Driscoll, of band Barefoot Truth
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